My new bike

P36

Recently, I've gotten into road cycling. Mostly because I can commute to work along the beautiful Lake Ontario shoreline into downtown Toronto. It's about a 19 km ride one way mostly along an awesome paved bike path that is part of the extensive trail system that runs through the Greater Toronto area (GTA).

My ride to work has been really enjoyable but I was originally doing it on my mountain bike with road tires. I figure I'm going to get a lot of riding in during the off-winter months so behold my new bike a [Trek Madone 4 series](http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes/road/race_performance/madone_4_series/ma.... This bike is awesome and is going to be a lot of fun to ride.

Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious

This site provides a simple bookmarking service. We follow your twitter feed, and whenever one of your tweets contains URLs, we add them to your delicious.com bookmarks. Optionally, bookmark URLs in @replies to you. We'll even add a delicious tag identifying the sender if you like.

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JetBrains PyCharm Preview

JetBrains PyCharm is a new Integrated Development Environment for programming using Python with the following key features:

  • Intelligent Editor: for Python with code completion, on-the-fly syntax and error highlighting and code inspections
  • Code Refactoring: including rename, introduce variable, introduce constant, pull up, push down and others
  • Web development with Django: with specific templates editing support, server launch from IDE and best in class support for HTML, CSS and JavaScript editing.
  • Project and Code Navigation: specialized project views, file structure views and quick jumping between files, classes, methods and usages
  • Error-Free Coding: on-the-fly code analysis, error highlighting and quick fixes
  • VCS Integrations: out-of-the-box support for Subversion, Perforce, Git, and CVS with changelists and merge
  • Cross-platform: works on WIndows, Mac OS X and Linux

Sounds like it has a lot of promise.

Pastebot

Pastebot is a powerful clipboard manager that stores text & images copied from your iPhone/iPod Touch. Organize, apply filters to, and copy clippings to be pasted or sent to other apps.

Fantastic clip board manager for the iPhone. The killer feature is the free companion sync Mac application that lets you push clippings back and forth from your Mac and iPhone. It basically helps turn your iPhone into a data gathering device. Check out this Macworld review and watch the video on the Pastebot website to really get a sense of how amazing this app is. Thanks to John Gruber for the find.

Introducing: Readability 1.5

Today, we’re excited to announce an important update: Readability 1.5. Some of the changes are more subtle than others. We’ve been listening to your feedback and we’re working to improve Readability for everyone.

Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading. It's a bookmarklet you click that formats a web page so it is much more enjoyable to read. If you haven't checked it out yet, you really should.

Free electronic copy of Multiagent Systems textbook

We recognize that an electronic copy offers benefits that cannot be realized in print, such as hyperlinks, full-text searching, use of PDF screen captures in lecture slides, and access from multiple locations. Thus, on this page we provide a free electronic copy of Multiagent Systems. You are invited to use it without restriction for screen viewing, but are requested to print it only under one of the following circumstances:

  • You live in a place that does not offer you access to the physical book;

  • The cost of the book is prohibitive for you;

  • You need only one or two chapters.

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Lehrer's Rules

People often ask me if there are guidelines in our practice of what I like to call MacNeil/Lehrer journalism. Well, yes, there are. And here they are:

  • Do nothing I cannot defend.
  • Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me.
  • Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.
  • Assume the viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am.
  • Assume the same about all people on whom I report.
  • Assume personal lives are a private matter, until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise.
  • Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories, and clearly label everything.
  • Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes, except on rare and monumental occasions.
  • No one should ever be allowed to attack another anonymously.
  • And, finally, I am not in the entertainment business.

It's too bad the rest of the mainstream US media doesn't take a similar approach to journalism as Jim Lehrer does.

Testing out Posterous

I was considering building a simple app to post links to multiple places, then I discovered Posterous. Looks very much like what I wanted.